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This article contains major spoilers for Poor Things (2023).
So what actually happens at the end?
Poor Things (2023) directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, runs 141 minutes, sits in the science fiction genre. Plot setup: Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. The film carries the tagline "She’s nothing like you’ve ever seen." through to its closing act. The scene-by-scene breakdown of the closing act follows below.
Plot recap leading into the ending
Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer is a novel by Scottish writer Alasdair Gray, published in 1992. It won the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize the same year.
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Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents.
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